#authorschallenge2019 asks, “At what age did you start writing?”
I posted a little about this last month (look for the picture of 2-year-old Hannah wearing a tiara if you want to read it), but here are a few more fun pictures from my childhood. The first shows me in some spectacular clothes making a birthday cake for some ants. The second is my beautiful handwriting. And the third is me with some of my stuffed animals, probably hosting a church service or teaching school or something like that. Imagination has always been a part of my life, and I think that’s why I started writing.
I decided to become a “real author” when I was 9 years old. I no longer wanted to write just for friends and family. I wanted to be published. And I was certain that “Mystery of the Fudge Factory,” a thrilling 9,000-word “mystery novel,” would top the bestseller lists by 2010. It even had a sequel, “The Concert Caper.” What could go wrong?
Then I learned more, and decided maybe I better write something different.
Today, I’m at least 10 novels and a handful of novellas past those first stories. But they, too, are a part of the journey, cringe-worthy as they are.
Maybe I’ll cringe when I think of Prince of the Barbarians some day. Who knows? For now, I’m going to keep doing what I’ve always done: believing I have a story worth telling, and writing it.
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